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Basketball Bonanza Airs Tuesday on FSD

July 14, 2014

It’s truly Christmas in July for high school basketball fans all day on Tuesday as FOX Sports Detroit loads its schedule with re-airs of MHSAA Basketball Finals action from this March.

Here’s the complete schedule:

  • 9 a.m. – Class D Girls Final  - Mount Pleasant Sacred Heart v. Crystal Falls Forest Park
  • 11 a.m. – Class A Girls Final – Bloomfield Hills Marian v. Canton
  • 1 p.m. – Class C Girls Final – Saginaw Nouvel v. St. Ignace
  • 3 p.m. – Class B Girls Final – Eaton Rapids v. Grand Rapids South Christian
  • 5 p.m. – Class D Boys Final – Southfield Christian v. Adrian Lenawee Christian
  • 7 p.m. – Class A Boys Final – Muskegon v. Bloomfield Hills
  • 9 p.m. – Class C Boys Final – Detroit Consortium v. Pewamo-Westphalia
  • 11 p.m. – Class B Boys Final – Milan v. Benton Harbor

Also, the fourth week of "Best Of 13-14” offerings will be featured on the MHSAA.tv Website this week.

For eight weeks over the Summer, the MHSAA.tv Website will spotlight some of the best tournament action from the 2013-14 school year, presenting four games each week.

Each contest will be easily identified with a “Best Of 13-14” thumbnail on the home page of the MHSAA.tv Website.  Here’s a look at the games which will be featured from July 14-21:

•  Temperance Bedford v. Bloomfield Hills Marian:  2013 Class A Girls Volleyball Semifinal. An absolute volleyball classic. Down 23-20 and facing elimination, Marian reeled off the last five points of this game, and led throughout the fifth and deciding game to head into the Finals.

•  DeWitt v. St. Clair:  2013 Division 3 Football Semifinal. Ben Heinritz scored twice for DeWitt and the Panthers' defense held on at the end of a 21-20 victory over St. Clair.

•  Farmington v. Sault Ste. Marie:  2014 Division 3 Ice Hockey Final. John Lethemon stopped 29 shots and Jason Petrad scored two first period goals to lead Farmington to a 2-1 win over the Blue Devils.

•  Grosse Pointe South v. Bay City Western:  2014 Division 1 Baseball Final. Sophomore Jason Clark pitched perfectly for five innings and ended up with a three-hitter in Western’s 6-2 victory over South. Western scored three times in the first inning for all the runs it would need.

DVD’s of the “Best Of 13-14” game videos, and Basketball Finals videos are available through the MHSAA.tv website.

      
  


      
  



    

      


  
    
      
      

      

    



  




  

  
    



  


  

          
        


      
Wounded Warrior Project: DeWitt vs Portland

  

    

      

                  
                
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DEWITT -- The meeting of two state-ranked teams  always will ratchet up a typical football night. Both communities,  naturally, want to see which is better on the field.


But during the hour before the opening kickoff Oct. 14 of DeWitt’s  game against Portland, those teams and their supporters together  recognized a grander cause. The night was dedicated to the Wounded  Warrior Project, which aids U.S. soldiers (and their families) who have  suffered service-related injuries and illnesses.

  
Rain washed out some planned attractions, but the evening certainly  was memorable. Both teams wore camouflage jerseys and each sent its  captains to the pre-game coin toss with an honorary captain representing  the military. A number of other service personnel were involved –  including a local color guard that presented a 30-foot flag for the  national anthem.


It’s understandable if people’s visions of wars and our military are  focused an ocean away. But connections hit close to home. DeWitt’s  honorary captain, Lansing’s U.S. Army Spc. Jacob Shumway, recently  returned from a deployment and has been in the service for two and a  half years. He’s a 2003 Lansing Everett graduate, and his mother Susan  Land is the principal at Lansing Eastern. His cousins Ethan and Collin  Rennaker start for DeWitt, and he walked alongside them for the pregame  flip. Shumway plans to attend Lansing Community College and study  digital graphic design.


Both teams are considered contenders for their respective state  titles next month; DeWitt is ranked No. 7 in Division 3, while Portland  is No. 4 in Division 5. And they played like it – Portland prevailed  22-20 in overtime.


A great game, no question. But similarly significant was a preliminary figure of more than $11,000 raised for the WWP.


For more about the Wounded Warrior Project visit http://www.woundedwarriorproject.org.